Apps BBC Radio Player without iPhone

[Fozziebear40]

Hi

I have just bought a Series 3 LTE. My aim was to play BBC Radio with my AirPods when on a dog walk without my iPhone.

Streaming Apple Music works fine as does the Apple Radio app but you can't get BBC UK radio stations on that.

The three radio apps I have that can get BBC, Radioplayer, TuneIn and myTuner seem to be just a remote control for their respective iPhone apps and the radio plays through the phone.

Am I missing a setting or is their a radio App that does it please?

 

[Fozziebear40]

I have now exhausted all the radio apps and all they do is control the iPhone app, they don't work independently on Apple Watch! To listen to the radio outside I have to take my iPhone with me

 

[Fozziebear40]

Ahhhh..... “ a streaming audio API available to developers in watchOS 6” that will sort it then

 

[Paulejonesy]

So, 5 months on, and like you I am still waiting for a BBC radio capable radio app for the Apple Watch. We were so close, with the Apple Radio app now providing some stations from Tunein, but now the Beeb has pulled its stations from what service, we are back to square one.

 

[Lyn2012]

It sounds similar to my problem with audiobooks. I can only put those purchased from Apple on to the watch, all my own are only able to be controlled by watch but played on the phone.

 

[Fozziebear40]

In 2019, to listen to a national BBC radio station outside the house (without my iPhone), I have to resort to using a portable DAB radio with wired headphones! I wanted just an Apple Watch and AirPods to do that job instead.

 

[Paulejonesy]

It's like waiting for a bus...

Within days we now have 2 options for radio streaming on the Cellular watch, both able to stream BBC Radio here in the UK.

Streamlets - A Radio Streaming Watch App

Broadcasts

 

[Fozziebear40]

Thanks for this, great stuff. Unfortunately we can't go out now 😂